Module 3: Managing Intellectual Property

Mr. Reuben Shelton, Legal counsel, Monsanto company with participant at Ibadan, Nigeria

Mr. Michael Gollin (left) with Mr. Wendell Holland enjoying a break from the Dar es Salaam GBDI training (2001)

Ms. Tomoko Miyamoto, from WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland

Module 3:
Managing Intellectual Property

Module 3 provides training in the following key areas:

	International frameworks for intellectual property
	The range of international instruments relating to intellectual property rights over biological resources – the Paris Convention, Budapest Treaty, TRIPS and UPOV Convention
	Philosophies underlying IPRs, such as a balance of rights holder vs. society
	IPRs and bioprospecting research results
	The nuts and bolts of managing Intellectual Property (IP)
	A discussion of selected well known and highly controversial patents -- Neem Extract, Basmati rice, Ayahuasca and Tumeric
	Agreements and contracts, including confidential agreements; material transfer agreements, collaborative research agreements, contract research agreements and employment agreements
	An introduction to licensing
	Patents and patenting
	IP management practices and strategy/policy issues
	Technology transfer in research institutions in developing countries
	How to establish a new technology transfer office
	Institutional policies
	Interacting with industry, and
	Trade secrets.